The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre

Tribute to Simone Veil
2017-12-17 17:00 - 19:00 (Africa/Johannesburg) | Educator Training

Gabrielle Goliath - Elegy Performance
2017-12-10 17:00 - 19:00 (Africa/Johannesburg) | Educator Training
Elegy is an ongoing series of commemorative gestures initiated in 2015. Each performance calls together a group of female vocal performers who collectively enact a ritual of mourning.
Responding to the physical, ontological and structural outworkings of rape-culture in South Africa, Elegy performances recall the identity of individuals whose subjectivities have been fundamentally violated – and who are, as such, all too easily consigned to a generic, all-encompassing victimhood. Significant to this is how loss becomes a site for community, and for empathic, cross-cultural and cross-national encounters. Seeking to work around the kinds of symbolic violence through which traumatised black bodies are routinely objectified, Elegy opens a distinctly postcolonial and intersectional space, wherein mourning is presented as a social and productive work – not in the sense of healing or ‘closure’, but as a necessary and sustained irresolution.
Elegy performances are staged in various locations and contexts – each realised in memory of a specific individual.

Book Launch of "Blackwashing Homophobia"
2017-11-29 19:00 - 21:00 (Africa/Johannesburg) | Educator Training

Conversations on Cancer, Courage & Life Lessons
2017-11-27 10:00 - 12:00 (Africa/Johannesburg) | Issy’s Coffee & Gift Shop, 1 Duncombe Road, Forest Town, 2193, South Africa
Join us for an inspiring and uplifting breakfast conversation with three women involved in the work of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, as they reflect on their experiences surviving cancer as well as the lessons they have learnt along the way.
Lauren Segal, Tali Nates & Kim Nates
Facilitated by Courtneigh Cloud Bernstein
Suggested Donation of R80
Refreshments will be provided
RSVP essential as seats are limited to
shirley@jhbholocaust.co.za or 011-640-3100

Conversations on Cancer, Courage & Life Lessons
2017-11-27 10:00 - 12:00 (Africa/Johannesburg) | Issy’s Coffee & Gift Shop, 1 Duncombe Road, Forest Town, 2193, South Africa
Join us for an inspiring and uplifting breakfast conversation with three women involved in the work of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, as they reflect on their experiences surviving cancer as well as the lessons they have learnt along the way.
Lauren Segal, Tali Nates & Kim Nates
Facilitated by Courtneigh Cloud Bernstein
Suggested Donation of R80
Refreshments will be provided
RSVP essential as seats are limited to
shirley@jhb.junglesa.co.za or 011-640-3100

Screening of 'When Voices Meet'
2017-11-19 18:00 - 21:00 (Africa/Johannesburg) | Educator Training
The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre invites you to the premier Johannesburg screening of “When Voices Meet” with co-founders of the Peace Train, Sharon Katz & Nonhlanhla Wanda.
When Voices Meet is set at the time when Nelson Mandela was finally released from prison. South African musician and music therapist Sharon Katz joined with singer and educator Nonhlanhla Wanda form a 500-voice multiracial choir to break through Apartheid’s barriers. Threatened with bombs and thwarted at every turn, they prevailed and railroaded across the country aboard The Peace Train.
When Voices Meet documents the trials, tribulations and triumphs of those musician activists and young choir members. They performed together for seven years and then reunited 20 years later to tell their stories and reflect upon The Peace Train’s impact.
The film was awarded Best Documentary Film, Best Original Soundtrack, Best Director, President’s Award and Audience Award in the USA and received the MADA Award in Toronto.
http://whenvoicesmeet.com
RSVP to shirley@jhbholocaust.co.za or +27-11-640-3100

Screening of 'When Voices Meet'
2017-11-19 18:00 - 21:00 (Africa/Johannesburg) | Educator Training
The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre invites you to the premier Johannesburg screening of “When Voices Meet” with co-founders of the Peace Train, Sharon Katz & Nonhlanhla Wanda.
When Voices Meet is set at the time when Nelson Mandela was finally released from prison. South African musician and music therapist Sharon Katz joined with singer and educator Nonhlanhla Wanda form a 500-voice multiracial choir to break through Apartheid’s barriers. Threatened with bombs and thwarted at every turn, they prevailed and railroaded across the country aboard The Peace Train.
When Voices Meet documents the trials, tribulations and triumphs of those musician activists and young choir members. They performed together for seven years and then reunited 20 years later to tell their stories and reflect upon The Peace Train’s impact.
The film was awarded Best Documentary Film, Best Original Soundtrack, Best Director, President’s Award and Audience Award in the USA and received the MADA Award in Toronto.
http://whenvoicesmeet.com
RSVP to shirley@jhb.junglesa.co.za or +27-11-640-3100

Out the Box: 20 Years of Queer Archiving
2017-11-15 19:00 - 20:00 (Africa/Johannesburg) | Educator Training

Historic Complexities Surrounding Memory in Austria
2017-11-14 19:00 - 21:00 (Africa/Johannesburg) | Educator Training

SA-Poland History Conference
2017-11-12 14:00 - 17:30 (Africa/Johannesburg) | Educator Training

'Where is Kovno?' Walkabout with Yda Walt
2017-11-12 11:15 - 13:00 (Africa/Johannesburg) | Educator Training
Join us for a special walkabout with artist Yda Walt of her exhibition “Where is Kovno?”

Annual Kristallnacht Commemoration
2017-11-09 19:00 - 21:00 (Africa/Johannesburg) | Goethe-Institut, 119 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood, South Africa
Watch the video from the event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMlN8nWilKI&feature=youtu.be

Protecting the Child: From Pietas to the Righteous
2017-11-05 17:30 - 19:00 (Africa/Johannesburg) | Educator Training

'Where is Kovno?' Walkabout
2017-10-29 11:15 - 13:00 (Europe/Helsinki)

SA Jewish Literature Discussion
2017-10-25 10:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Helsinki)

BBC Producer & Writer Laurence Rees
2017-10-22 18:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Helsinki)

BBC Producer & Writer Laurence Rees
2017-10-22 18:00 - 20:00 (Africa/Johannesburg) | Educator Training

The Family Album: Narrative, Memory and Imagination
2017-10-10 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Helsinki)
